Friday Dec 19th

Have a great break, if you would like to do extra credit over the break feel free to take on the challenge.

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Wed 17th

This is the assignment for the Poster on propaganda we worked on wed after looking at lots of WWI posters.

Quiz tomorrow

Things to Review

Muckrakers-Sinclair, Tarbell, Spargo

}Triangle Shirtwaist fire impact on business

}Pullman Strike reflective of other strikes and unions.

}The results of the progressive period

}Spanish American War-reasons and results

}Philippine American War-reasons

}Imperialism of US from both sides(cartoons)

}Reasons for US entering WWI

}Some of the ideas from what was happening   on the home front.

Tuesday

We continued on in looking at the entry into war. Students completed the chart using mostly yesterday's readings. We also began to look at the role propaganda played in making the war a Total War(entire nation involved) through advertisements and posters.
I can't load it so the 5 ideas to summarize are the sinking of the lusitania, the zimmerman note, unrestricted submarine warfare, the socialist/communist view, and the economy and wealth.
propaganda posters will be posted tomorrow.

Quiz on thursday. Everything from this unit can be reviewed on website.

Monday

We started to look at reasons the US got involved in WWI. In honesty the reason President Wilson gives is unrestricted Submarine Warfare. While this may be completely true, many feel there were alternative reasons. We looked at each of these theories as they all may have played some weight in choosing to enter the war.
Entry into War

Friday the 12th

Hey, just a heads up we will be having a quiz on thursday coming up next week. Students can always be reviewing what we have covered from the unit.

We began to look at WWI and what led to its beginning. We also talked about why initially the US chose to stay out of the war,as we were a nation full of immigrants from many of the participating nations at war.

Thursday December 11th

We finished up looking at the territories America took over. In all America had added Alaska, Hawaii, the Panama Canal, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Cuba. We also looked at all the finishing parts of the Progressive era. Basically all the little details in the story we didn't discuss. 

Short notes on Hawaii Alaska and Panama Canal

Assignment on Conclusion of progressive era.

Tues and Wed the 9th and 10th

Both days we looked at political cartoons from the Philippine War about the positives and negatives of American imperialism. Students analyzed them and had a question to answer about all of them. 

 Cartoons

Monday December 8th

We looked at the Spanish American war and the results of it. Students then began reading on the Philippine American War and the debate surrounding it. Notes and Assignment are within the link.
Philippine American War

Friday Dec 5th

We begun discussing the "Power" portion of this unit and America's entry into the Spanish American War. Mr LeDuc lectured on how the destruction of the Maine, Yellow Journalism, the birth of film all contributed to America being pressured into a war with Spain.

Spanish American War

Thursday Dec 4

We continued on looking at labor unions and strikes with the Pullman Strike. The strike that would later give us Labor day was another one of the many strikes of the day. Students learned about the strike and then compared the two newspapers on what was going on. How the papers and Americans saw the strike differently. Students then looked at how things slightly changed once Roosevelt became President.

Pullman Strike Documents
Notes and Assignment(it goes with the strike documents)

Wed Dec 3rd

In class Notebooks were due today for 1, 4th and 5th periods, 2nd periods are due friday and 3rd periods are do tomorrow.

We discussed in class the role the fire played on changing the perception of worker safety. We also looked at how unions can help and hurt American businesses.

Tuesday December 2nd

Today we discussed the readings of the muckrakers and how they attempted to promote progress through informing the public. We then began the HBO documentary on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. While it is not available for streaming PBS did a similar film that can be found at http://video.pbs.org/video/1817898383/.

Monday Dec 1st

Welcome back! We began Unit 4 today titled Progress and Power. We will be looking at the progressive era and America's attempt to fix problems the nation has struggled with. We will also be looking at how America slowly became a world power. Today we began looking at muckrakers. Journalists who helped bring to the attention of the public problems that the nation was facing.
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